Ktsap Navy News September 2, 2011

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VOLUME 1, NO. 23 | 2 SEPTEMBER 2011

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DADT ends, stories remain

By TOM JAMES

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Medical corpsman Josh Masters didn’t decide to give up his career in the Navy until the second time the Navy tried to dishonorably discharge him for being gay.

The first time, he was just back from the war in Iraq, and his first-line leader, a Marine corporal, told the inquiry board convened that he didn’t care if corpsman Masters “was as gay as butterflies and rainbows,” and that he’d take a hundred more Marines just like him.

That time, the Corps went after him after a fellow service member informed

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Selectee Ernesto Oliveros, of Naval Hospital Brmerton, stamps the hand of Katherine Robbins Friday at the Kitsap County Fair, as Derrick Robbins Marilyn Venable look on. TOM JAMES/STAFF PHOTO

Chiefs help out

Chief petty officers’ association keeps watch over gates at county fair

By TOM JAMES

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It’s not just any county fair where you hear a call over the radio confirmed with a brisk ‘aye’ – but attentive fair goers might have heard just that this past weekend, as the Pacific Northwest Chief Petty Officers’ Association manned the gates at the annual Kitsap County Fair and Stampede.

For the past eleven years the organization – yellow shirts are full chiefs, while the blues are selectees, or soonto-be chiefs – has been awarded the contract for selling tickets and handling admissions at the county event.

The association represents all the Chief Petty Officers’ Associations

in the region, including those for Bangor, Naval Hospital Bremerton, and the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard.

For the organization, it’s a chance to get out and be seen in the community and train soon-to-be chiefs in the spirit of community service and pride that goes with the rank, said Master Chief Tony Collins, one of the supervisors for association staff at the event, “We all volunteer because we love being in public, and we like getting the chance to represent Navy chiefs,” He said. “We may not be wearing the uniform, but the t-shirt represents the uniform.”

Danise Barnes, admissions director for the fair, said the organization had been a good partner during the six years she has worked with the chiefs at the fair. Specifically, Barnes praised their dependability and punctuality.

“They stick to a watch bill, and they’re so regimented, it makes my job a lot easier,” said Barnes.

The event is also a chance for the organization, which is paid by the fair, to gain much-needed funds, said

Collins. The staff is all volunteer, all of the money raised goes to the group, which then parcels it out to its member branches, said.

Collins said it is typical for each command to have its own association, and that it’s only the smallest commands, such as Keyport, that typically do not.

The money is usually spent on various CPOA events throughout the year, including farewell and welcome events for members whose ships are leaving or arriving Naval Base Kitsap, who are transferring off the facility, or who are retiring from the service, Collins said. When necessary the association’s funds have also in the past gone to help members in need, and Collins said that his branch, at PSNS, makes a yearly donation to a local charity, as well, he said.

While the associations from each command frequently help out with events on their own, the fair is the one yearly event that draws petty officers from the all the regional com-

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Layoffs affect 50 workers at PSNS .....................pg. 6 $2.2 billion in benifits for Agent Orange vets ..pg. 7 USS Chase was ways on as an escort ..............pg. 9

Friday sails away Puget Sound Navy Museum ends successful summer outreach program

By TOM JAMES

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With the next-door fountain park offering a cool dip on a hot day, it took a while for the activity tables at the Puget Sound Navy Museum to draw a crowd of eager kids drawing and getting their faces painted last Friday, but they eventually did, giving summer a muted sendoff as the museum transitioned into its fall schedule.

The activity tables, set up on the lawn between the museum and the adjacent Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, were part of Set Sail Fridays, a weekly event put on throughout summer by museum staff to draw people to the museum and give kids a chance to learn about Navy and maritime subjects, said Carolyn Lane, an educator at the museum.

Friday’s event was the last for the summer, as the museum moved to its fall schedule.

While perhaps not unexpected, given the hot weather, the limited turnout was somewhat unusual for the event, which Lane said usually draws 30-50 people throughout the day.

“It’s been a success, just based on the trend in the last couple of years,” said Valerie Johnson, another educator at the museum, of the two-yearold program.

Lane said that during the summer it was not common for families to move from the event, which features educational activities tied to the museum’s current exhibits, to the museum itself.

In addition to water play tables, a drawing and button-making table, and a face-painting station, Friday’s event featured two educational exhibits, one focusing on capillary action, the other on how to tie a knot with one hand. The knot activity tied into the museum’s knot-tying exhibit, Lane said, part of a larger exhibit on lifters and riggers in the shipyard.

Johnson said the water tables were a consistent favorite over the summer.

“The kids are pretty fascinated with the water tables,” she said. “They pour water back and forth, or add soap to the water, or take water and carry it over to water the plants.”

Instead of a weekly event, during fall the museum hosts a monthly event called Last Saturdays, said Lane, where children and their families are invited to the museum for open sessions of learning and play centered around a monthly subject.

September’s subject will be maritime crafts, while October will feature historical costumes and dress-up along with Navy uniforms. In November, attendees are invited to write letters and draw pictures for active duty service members deployed away from home over Thanksgiving. Since the last Saturday of December falls on New Years’ Eve, said Lane, the museum will not host a Last Saturday that day.

Lane said that although the event is primarily geared toward children, she tries to make it interesting for adults as well.

“It’s not just dropping your kid off to do stuff.

We want everybody to be part of the activities,” Lane said. “It’s been a ton of fun. It’s great watching the kids come and have fun and learn.”

Madison Jangen, right, watches Puget Sound Navy Museum Educator Valerie Johnson paint a butterfly on her hand at the museum’s Set Sail Fridays event.

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Alex Smalley, Krissy Monen, and Drew Smalley check out one of the water tables at the Puget Sound Navy Museum’s Set Sail Fridays event. Last Friday’s wasthe last of the weekly event, which has been replaced for fall by the museum’s Last Saturdays series.

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Layoffs affect 50 at PSNS

By Tom James

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A local contractor providing labor on a weekly basis at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard recently cut its shipyard staff to eight – down from an average of 60 full-time employees earlier in August.

Puget Sound Environmental said the layoff came as three major projects finished at nearsimultaneous times. The

three projects that ended when work began, in March, included repairs that it would proband retrofitting ably finish later this work on the USS summer.

Pennsylvania, the Lopez said the USS Seawolf and company and its the USS Michigan. staff are used to Rick Lopez, the ups and downs of Puget Sound of contracting, Environmental, a but that such a Bremerton compalarge drop is still ny, said the layoffs unusual.

Rick Lopez were not unexThe Bremerton pected, and that company supplies the company was informed “fire watch” and general

labor personnel to the shipyard as a contractor, on a week-to-week basis. Fire watch personnel supervise welding, cutting, and other “hot” activities with potential for causing fires, said Lopez. Staff from the company also supervise removal and placement of lead ballast in ships, and perform other general labor jobs such as cleanup at the shipyard.

Lopez said all eight of the PSE personnel remaining

Contractor delayed in hiring Security clearance holds back local company from creating 200 jobs, Murray promises inquiry

By Tom James

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A local company awarded a fixed-length contract at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard has been waiting 18 months for the security clearance necessary to begin part of the work, delaying the creation of about 200 full-time positions and shortening their ultimate duration.

The jobs would be part of a five-year contract awarded Puget Sound Environmental, a Bremerton company to provide fire watch and general labor services. While part of the contract is for work in areas of the shipyard that require only a green clearance, the facility’s lowest level of security clearance,

said Rick Lopez, a director at the company, it also includes work in areas requiring what he called “red badge” clearance. It is those jobs, in the red area, that Lopez said the company has not been able to create.

Carlos Moreno, president of the company, said that he intended to hire an all-veteran workforce to fill the positions, partly because veterans often have an easier time getting security clearances, and partly, he said, “because it’s good for the community.”

Moreno said Tuesday that he had sent letters via certified mail as well as emails to the offices of both Senator Patty Murray and Congressman Norm Dicks asking them to look into the delay. Lopez said he had

asked WorkSource of Kitsap County for any help they could provide as well.

Lopez said that the security clearance in question is for the company as a whole.

Each employee working in a given security zone also has to be cleared, said Lopez, but that process can’t begin until after the company as a whole has been approved.

After repeated calls, George Behan, a spokesman for Dicks, said he could not get in touch with the staffer responsible for handling constituent cases, that he did not know of the company or of any letters or emails sent to the office, and that he could not comment on the issue.

Matt McAlvanah, a spokesman for Murray, said that in response to the letter the senator would begin an official inquiry into the status of the inquiry and what could be done to move them along.

“It’s become an issue for certain jobs because because the work needs to be done, but there’s this bureaucracy that needs to be worked at a

higher level,” said Margaret Hess of Kitsap WorkSource.

Lopez said that although the company had originally been told that the clearance would take at least one year, and possibly as long as two, the company had not had even a status update since their initial application. Even an acknowledgment from a higher authority that the process was moving along, he said, would be appreciated.

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Kevin Hines earns Blacks in Government award Kevin Hines, with Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division at Keyport, was awarded the 2011 Blacks in Government Navy Civilian Meritorious Service Award Aug. 23 at a ceremony in Boston.

Hines became involved with NUWC Keyport’s college recruiting effort in 2009 and focused his attention on enhancing existing relationships with Prairie View A&M University in Texas, a historically Black college. He has worked closely with recent hires from the college to help them

adjust to the local community and provide support such as finding housing.

“His innovative approaches to recruitment, personal involvement with the students and staff, and his mentoring new hires from Prairie View have had a significant impact on increasing diversity and retention of these new members to our workforce and community,” said Capt. Stephen E. Iwanowicz, commander, NUWC Keyport, in a statement.

at the shipyard are working Peggy Barnett, busion cleanup after the major ness manager at Kitsap projects.

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19 years too late On January 20, 1993, as Bill Clinton assumed office as the 42nd President of the United States my bunker mate and I, dressed in full chemical protection gear, watched from desert compound outside Dhahran Saudi Arabia.

On Clinton’s election platform was an end the ban on gays serving openly in the military that was not going to materialize. At some point during the televised inauguration, Richard, my battle buddy for two deployments and gay man, decided to tell the rest of our infantry company that he was gay – he was one of the few that’d already seen combat.

His outting came during our second tour together. The first spent routing the Iraq’s Republican Guard in open mechanized desert warfare; the second to run “anti-terror” patrols around U.S. bases, then situated on Saudi soil.

I’d learned that Richard was gay GREG only after our Gulf War I battalion SKINNER was dispersed Army-wide and we found ourselves stateside in Colorado during their fight to block equal rights for the gays and lesbians. After nearly two years together 24/7, 365, I learned he was gay when he blurted the idea out one day on the way into town for a drink at the pub.

That night (in Saudi), as Clinton assumed office, Richard stood up with the courage, honor and sense of duty befitting any decorated infantryman, and upstanding trend-setter, to report to the CO that he was gay – 10 months before Don’t ask Don’t tell was introduced as a defense directive and a major compromise to campaign promises. In Richard’s case, deployed at the sharp end of the stick, rumbles followed his admissions of homosexuality but died down quickly as everyone got back to the work at hand.

The coming Sept. 20 full repeal of the ban on gays and lesbians serving in the military should be celebrated with all the enthusiasm the military can muster. And, perhaps, a moment of silence should be observed for all the pain suffered and the careers ruined while 19 additional years passed in limbo as honorable brothers and sisters suffered bigotry, violence and hatred at the hands of their own comrades.

Correction In the Aug. 26 story “Navy faces off with Spice,” the name of Darcy Himes, Harrison Medical Center’s communications coordinator, was misspelled.

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What he knows, he read in a book My oldest son, Ford, almost 11, has been talking to me since the day he was born. It feels that way, at least. He said his first word (“God,” only he meant to say “dog”) at 11 months, and it’s been a steady verbal stream of consciousness ever since. The only thing Ford does more than talk is read.

I recognized Ford’s gift immediately. However, it wasn’t until Owen was born that Dustin knew something was different.

Dustin: “Have you noticed how Owen’s mouth is really small and his ears are big, but Ford is the opposite: big mouth, small ears?”

Of course, Dustin had been deployed for most of Ford’s infancy and toddlerhood. It would be another few years before he fully understood our situation.

Ford’s commentary has always been mostly informative (such as the time when he was 2 and said, “Mom, nobody can make you sad. Only you can make you sad”), but as he’s gotten older, I feel like I’m living with a professor who still has some baby teeth and wears a Star Wars t-shirt.

Ford learns most of what he knows from the books he reads. He carries around two at a time because his biggest fear is finishing one book and not having another on hand. When he is citing book knowledge, it is obvious because he will use a word he has only read, not heard--words like “soliciting”--and he will emphasize the wrong syllable.

On a recent clear, starry night, Ford and I sat on

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the dock at my parents’ lake house and looked for satellites AVY in the sky. “You’ll know it’s a satellite and not a star because it ISE will move and not blink,” Ford said. I doubted him. Until I saw ARAH a tiny white dot glide across the MILEY night sky. Ford continued talking, but I tuned out to look for more satellites.

Tuning out is what you sometimes have to do. Unless you are Dustin. Dustin can listen to Ford’s lectures, if you will, for extraordinary lengths of time. On the way back from Bar Harbor this summer, Ford mused aloud about survival skills after getting lost on a trail at Cadillac mountain. I fell asleep in the front seat. When I woke up 45 minutes later, Ford was still talking.

And Dustin was still listening.

Ford’s happiest moment was probably when he went with me last week to the dentist. While I was leaned back, on an incline in the chair--with suctions, scraping tools and a hygienist’s hand stuffed in my mouth--Ford, who had just finished getting a cavity filled, hovered over my face to talk. His numbed lip sagged and he sounded like he had cotton in his cheeks. Still, he could not pass up the opportunity to talk to me while I was hanging upside down and helpless.

Sometimes our other boys, Owen, 8, or Lindell, 4, add to these conversations with their characteristic flair, which usually prompts another lesson from Ford.

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LOCAL veterans and active duty tell of experiences on Masters’ after reading an email over his shoulder. The informant suspected the “I love you” on the screen came from another man, and reported him to command. Fortunately for Masters, his team leader’s words of support on his character were enough and the investigation stopped there.

“My marines that had to trust me with their lives basically didn’t care,” said Masters. “The only thing that they cared about was whether I could do my job or not.”

Don’t ask At its heart, Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell was a development upon previously enacted Department of Defense regulations making homosexuality punishable by discharge.

It didn’t change the permissibility of homosexuality, but sought to give gay and lesbian service members a kind of second-class protection: they could serve, as long as they kept their personal lives secret, according to multiple sources.

The ‘Don’t Ask’ part was what tripped the Navy up in Masters’ case. Under the policy, privacy was supposed to be guaranteed those willing to keep their secrets. Masters, at least then, was willing to keep

his. But when the officer asked him, over and over, in front of a board of inquiry, whether he was having boyfriend problems, or if he wanted to talk about his boyfriend, or if he missed his boyfriend, the officer was breaking the rules.

Don’t tell That was the ‘Don’t Tell’ part – gay and lesbian soldiers, sailors and airmen were prevented from talking about their sexuality, or doing anything else that ‘told’ about it, like visiting a gay bar, or being seen kissing or holding hands in public. Or receiving letters at a naval base or ship from a same-sex partner. Or, on a phone call during a deployment, cramped into a tight space where others could know who you were talking to, telling the wrong person you loved them. Or bringing a child to a function, where that child could say the wrong thing.

One retired area Coast Guardsman, who served for 15 years until he was discharged in 1995 under Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell for being bisexual, said he didn’t experience the ban itself as oppressive, but rather as something he just had to deal with during his service.

Today, he is a police officer with a local department, but asked

CHIEFS | FROM PAGE 1 mands. Selectee Jennifer Clem said that makes it a good chance to meet both other selectees and other chiefs.

“We work pretty closely with these guys throughout the night,” said Clem, “so we get to know them.”

Collins said the event is also an opportunity for older chiefs to make an impression on enlisted personnel, called selectees, who’ve been selected to become chiefs but not yet promoted. That means communicating the spirit of service, he said, along with the pride in the uniform – and a little bit

of friendly razzing, too.

“I do like to use a bit of sarcasm,” said Collins with a grin. Later he added that even older Navy vets like to get in on it, giving the selectees a bit of what he called a hassle.

At the end of the day, though, Collins said, it’s about volunteering, raising money for the association, which covered 52 watches every day during the five-day event, and representing the Navy and the rank to the public.

“Showing our anchors, if you would,” said Collins.

to remain anonymous.

He’s relatively closeted at work because he said he fears prosecutors might unearth the information and use it against him during a trial, or that someone he had to question or arrest might use it against him on the street.

The discharge, he said, took almost seven months, months longer than the typical four-

“I would get letters from my partner every day, and he couldn’t put his name on them,” – Josh Masters week discharge process under Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, because he was bisexual and had a girlfriend.

“It was obvious to all involved that I wasn’t actually gay,” he said. “It was somewhat difficult for them to figure out.”

Adding to his frustration, he said, is the fact that today he knows that the way he was discharged was illegal under DADT, because the first step was his commanding officer asking him, after overhearing a remark, if he was gay.

“It was the way it was, the normal course of action. The cost of doing business,” he said of hiding his sexuality during his time in the Coast

name on them,” said Masters. “He talked about he missed me and how he loved me, but gender pronouns couldn’t be used. And that was life for us.”

One Kitsap resident who is an active duty senior chief in the Navy, agreed to speak anonymously about his experi-

Guard. “I had to have short hair. I couldn’t tell people I was bisexual.

Same thing.”

The reality Masters joined the Navy at 17, angry about 9/11 and wanting to serve. His grandfather and great-grandfather served in the military, making it also a family tradition that he wanted to be part of. Trained as a medical corpsman, then sent to Camp Lejeune, Masters was attached to a Marine Corps battalion.

In March 2005 he deployed to Iraq with that battalion.

Masters’ inquiry was carried out, and wheels were set in motion to dishonorably discharge him. The military gave up only at the last minute. Masters and advocates from the Service Members’ Legal Defense Fund protested the fact that when the inquiry was convened, a member of the panel had asked, over and over, questions obviously intended to elicit a response from masters about his sexuality.

In the beginning, Masters wanted to stay in the military, and planned for a career in the Navy. Eventually, though, Masters took to carrying a letter in his wallet, so that he would have it ready to turn in just in case the stress of hiding became too much.

“It sucked every day.

I would get letters from my partner every day, and he couldn’t put his

“I have concerns with the professionalism, If I tell one person on the boat it’s going to go throughout the boat. I’m not naïve, some people are going to have a problem with it.”

– anonymous Naval Base Kitsap sailor ences. Even though the policy is being lifted, he said, it’s still technically in effect, and while he said he didn’t think it

could be extended, he said he still worries that homosexuality carries a stigma in the Navy workplace.

During his 13-year career, he has hidden his sexuality from fellow service members.

Although he identified as gay when he joined the military, he decided that covering up his personal life was something he could deal with.

Having participated in ROTC during high school, he said he felt he knew what to expect.

“I chose it. I knew when I raised my right hand to take the oath that I was choosing to live that life.”

After so many years in the closet at work, he said it’s hard to know whether or not it has had a permanent effect.

“I’ve suppressed it for so many years that it’s hard to say,” he said. “I have concerns with the professionalism. If I tell one person on the boat it’s going to go throughout the boat. I’m not naïve, some people are going to have a problem with it.”

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Chaplain Recalls 9/11’s Horror CAMP LEATHERNECK, AFGHANISTAN, (AFPS) – Navy Chaplain (Capt.) Rondall Brown’s thick Blue Ridge Mountain drawl makes its presence known here, as he describes his experiences in New York City a decade ago with one word – horror.

Brown, a 23-year Navy veteran, said his introduction to horror came 10 years ago and 10,000 miles from here in New York City during the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

He was then a lieutenant commander serving as a chaplain for a Coast Guard unit in New England.

Brown, who hails from Haysville, N.C., spent several weeks in New York’s ground zero area immediately following the attacks helping devastated families through the catastrophe.

Brown seemed to be able to recall everyone he’d helped through the devastation in Manhattan. “I remember one lady collapsing and just crying out, ‘Oh my God, my baby! I will never see her again!’� Brown said.

The woman’s husband, he added, had just “stood there, big guy, clenched fists, with tears streaming down his face. He

never said a word.�

Brown spoke with long pauses as he recalled the horrific events of that day. “I apologize,� the chaplain said, running his fingers through his short crop of gray hair. “I’m not normally like this.�

Today, Brown serves here as the command chaplain for the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing (Forward).

Serving in Afghanistan “brings a peace for me,� said Brown, his face flushed crimson with emotion. “We are doing something to prevent it from occurring again. “If you had been there, and have the vivid memories I do of the horror these families went through, it’s unimaginable,� he added. “There was nothing to take home. There were no bodies.� “In one sense it seems much longer than 10 years ago, but in another sense it feels just like yesterday,� Brown said. “I think for the people who had loved ones die, it’s a very vivid memory.�

Brown also recalled the awful smell and

heavy dust that pervaded the disaster zone at ground zero. “They gave me a little mask to wear, but I never wore it,� he said. “You can’t talk to people and wear a mask.�

The chaplain said it was important to him to be in Afghanistan on the 10th anniversary of the attacks. He said it was important to work to eradicate violence in this once terror-stricken region. “There’s never a measurement you can put on the loss of a life, civilian or military. But should we be here? Yes, I think so,�

Brown said. “People here are beginning to take leadership.

They’re feeling confident with support from the government, with support from the American and coalition troops. “When I was in Iraq in al Anbar,� he continued, “the tide turned there when the people said to the insurgency, ‘OK, we have had enough of what you are doing to the innocent civilians.’�

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Culinary Specialist 3rd Class Alexander R. Laduca prepares lobsters for the crew aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Truxtun (DDG 103) Aug. 29, 2011. Truxtun is deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility conducting maritime security operations and support missions as part of Operations Enduring Freedom and New Dawn. U.S. NAVY PHOTO BY MASS COMMUNICATION SPECIALIST 2ND CLASS TONY D. CURTIS.

SMILEY | FROM PAGE 4 Me: We’re going to have a meteorite shower tonight.

We should go outside and watch it.

Owen: A meteorite is coming to Earth and you want to watch? That sounds like a horrible idea.

Ford: Meteoroids, meteors and meteorites are all particles floating around in space. It is an “meteoroid� while it is still orbiting the sun. When a

meteoroid enters the earth’s atmosphere and burns up, it is called a “meteor,� or “shooting star.� If the meteoroid does not burn up in our atmosphere and hits the earth’s surface, it is called a “meteorite.�

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But Ford’s lessons don’t always revolve around astronomy. Sometimes he talks about Star Wars, which is pretend space.

There is a difference.

A fun game is to challenge even the most hardcore Star Wars enthusiasts to a battle of wits with Ford. Dustin’s standard warning: “What Ford knows about Star Wars, he didn’t learn from watching the movies.�

People usually laugh.

They think we are kidding.

Grown men wink as if they are about to let a child fake win. And then Ford will say something like, “There are two characters named ‘Owen’ in Star Wars, and they are not the same person. Who are they?�

Any takers?

Sarah Smiley is a author, syndicated columnist, mother and Navy wife. Her column appears weekly in the Kitsap Navy News.

Vets Get $2.2 billion in Agent Orange benefits

WASHINGTON (AFPS) – Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki announced Wednesday that more than $2.2 billion in retroactive benefits already has been paid to about 89,000 Vietnam veterans and their survivors who filed claims related to one of three new Agent Orange presumptive conditions.

On Aug. 31, 2010, the Veterans Affairs Department amended its regulations to add ischemic heart disease, hairy cell leukemia and other chronic B-cell leukemias and Parkinson’s disease to the list of diseases presumed to be related to exposure to Agent Orange.

According to the VA, Agent Orange is the name of a specific blend of herbicides used during the Vietnam era. The military sprayed millions of gallons on trees and vegetation that provided cover for enemy forces.

Some Vietnam-era veterans were exposed to these herbicides. VA and many other government departments and agencies have conducted research studies on the possible health effects of Agent Orange exposure on U.S. veterans.

VA has recognized certain cancers and other diseases associ-

ated with Agent Orange exposure. Veterans, veterans’ children and survivors may be eligible for compensation benefits for these diseases and health care benefits.

During an Aug. 30 speech before members of the American Legion in Minneapolis, President Barack Obama pledged that the federal government will do all it can to support the nation’s military veterans and their families. “As the president said to the American Legion yesterday, VA is committed to ensuring veterans and their families receive the care and benefits they have earned,�

Shinseki said yesterday. “I encourage all potentially eligible veterans to apply as soon as possible to preserve the most favorable effective date for payments.�

For new claims, VA may authorize up to one year of retroactive benefits if veterans can demonstrate that they have experienced one of those conditions since the date of the regulatory change.

VA has reviewed, and continues to review, thousands of previously filed claims that may qualify for retroactive benefits under a longstanding court order of the U.S. District Court

for the Northern District of California in Nehmer vs. U.S. Veterans Administration. “VA encourages survivors of veterans whose death may be due to one of the three diseases to file a claim for dependency and indemnity compensation,� said Allison A. Hickey, VA’s undersecretary for benefits.

Shinseki’s decision to add these conditions to

the list of Agent Orange presumptive conditions was based on a study by the Institute of Medicine. The study indicated a positive association between exposure to certain herbicides and the subsequent development of one or more of the three conditions.

Potentially eligible veterans include those who were exposed based on duty or visitation in Vietnam or on its inland waterways between Jan. 9, 1962, and May 7, 1975; exposed along the demilitarized zone in Korea between April 1, 1968, and Aug. 31, 1971; or exposed due to herbicide tests and storage at military bases within and outside of the United States.

The Agent Orange Claims Processing

System website located at https://www.fasttrack. va.gov/AOFastTrack/ may be used to submit claims related to the three new presumptive conditions. The website makes it easy to electronically file a claim and allows veterans and their physicians to upload evidence supporting the claim. It also permits online viewing of claim status.

Beyond the three new presumptive disabilities, veterans may file online at VA’s My-eBenefits website at: https://www. ebenefits.va.gov/ebenefits-portal/ebenefits.portal. People can check the status of their claim with a premium account, confirming their identity, and use a growing number of online services.

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For more information about Agent Orange presumptives and disability compensation, go to http://www.publichealth. va.gov/exposures/agentorange/.

For questions about Agent Orange, veterans may call VA’s Special Issues Helpline at 1-800749-8387 and press 3.

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The training took place on Naval Magazine Indian Island’s (NMII) largest crane, otherwise known as “Big Blue,” which stands approximately 320 feet tall with its boom in the highest position.

The high angle rescue training consisted of rigging multiple lines to raise and lower personnel and a victim inside a basket more than 150 feet. The training is conducted once a year by NRNW F&ES, but this is the first time the Navy invited civilian fire and rescue personnel making up the Homeland Security Region 2 Technical Rescue Team to participate. “[Big Blue] presents many unique rescue challenges,” said NRNW F&ES Battalion 2 Assistant Chief Eric Wentworth. “With the height and configuration of the crane, if anyone experiences a medical condition and can’t extricate themselves down to the ground to get help, we’ll have to lower the patient down manually using ropes.”

Wentworth said NMII has only four rescue personnel on the base, so a mutual aid situation will happen if there is ever a victim stuck in the crane. The training provided could also be used in other vertical rescue scenarios, he said.

NRNW F&ES includes personnel stationed at NMII, Naval Base Kitsap, Naval Air Station Whidbey Island and Naval Station Everett. NRNW F&ES stations have great working relationships with neighboring county fire and rescue teams. Training in various scenarios and responding together as a team to real-world events is a benefit

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Sept. 1, 1915: After the torpedoing of of the British liner Arabic, the German government promised US President Wilson that no more passenger liners would be attacked without warning.

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of the mutual aid partnership between the Navy and county fire departments.

“Having joint training exercises with neighboring jurisdictions allows the agencies to learn what each agency’s capabilities and limitations are,” said NMII Station 91 Fire Captain Glenn Samples. “It provides all of us an opportunity to use different equipment and to learn specialized skill sets from each individual. But most importantly, joint training exercises help to maintain open lines of communication and foster good working relationships.”

Last fiscal year, NRNW F&ES received more than 3,400 calls for fire and rescue services spread out among all four Navy installations. Nearly a quarter of those calls were for requests for services in areas outside of the bases’ property lines. NRNW F&ES Deputy Fire Chief Kurt Waeschle said they receive an average of two calls per day for off-base assistance with situations ranging from fires to medical aid to miscel-

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Lt. Dag Liljequist of Bainbridge Island Fire Department said that most firefighters and rescue personnel work in urban environments, so having had an opportunity to train in an industrial setting is a rare treat.

“This was an opportunity that other civilian teams don’t necessarily get,” said Liljequist. “Working with Navy Region Northwest on one of the largest cranes in the region gives us an opportunity to challenge our nerves. The extra element of height is great, and it’s awesome to come out and train with these federal guys.”

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Sept. 2, 1775: Under the command of General George Washington, the 78-ton schooner Hannah is chartered to attack British transports and supply ships, becoming the first vessel in ‘Washington’s Navy.’

Sept. 3, 1925: The US Navy dirigible Shenandoah, crashed in a storm near Ava, Ohio. Lt. Cmdr. Zachary Lansdowne and 13 others are killed, out of a crew of 43. The dirigible had been on a second transcontinental goodwill tour, two years and two days after its inaugural flight.

Sept. 4, 1941: In what becomes known as the Greer Incident, the destroyer USS Greer is attacked by U-652. The submarines torpedoes miss, as do the destroyer’s depth charges.

Sept. 5, 1781: The Battle of Virginia Capes took place, with 25 British ships under the command of Admiral Thomas Graves appearing at the mouth of the Chesapeake and engaging the French.

The French outgun the British but are undermanned, with many of their sailors ashore when the attack begins. The forces meet and engage, but fighting dies out at dusk. No ships are sunk on either side, although the British sustain 336 casualties and the French 240.

Compiled by Kitsap Navy News staff from reference materials

‘Chase’ was always on Ship steamed for three years, two battle stars before meeting the scrapper Kitsap Navy News

The destroyer escort USS Chase (DE-158) served just three years in the Navy, sailing in both the Atlantic and finally the Pacific, where it barely thwarted a fatal attack.

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On board were 186 sailors, many of whom manned an impressive array of antisubmarine firepower. Chase had three, 3-inch gunmounts; eight, 21-inch torpedoe

Chase’s wartime officer complement. PHOTO COURTESY OF HULON BROWN.

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tubes; eight depth charge pods, and one Hedhgehog depth charge pod.

It also carried two depth charge tubes.

Between Sept. 14, 1943 and Nov 23, 1944, Chase escorted six transatlantic convoys between New York and Norfolk and North African ports. During her second crossing, while approaching Bizerte, Tunisia, April 20, 1944, Chase fired on attacking enemy torpedo bombers and drove them off before rescuing the survivors from the three torpedoed merchant ships that were sunk.

During the return passage, Chase joined in the search for the submarine which torpedoed her sister ship USS Fletcher (DE-157) May 5 and rescued 52 sailors from the water.

Chase was reclassified APD-54, Nov. 24, 1944.

With its conversion complete it sailed from Boston, Feb. 4, 1945, for action in the Pacific. Reaching Ultithi March 18, the escort was ordered to the Okinawa invasion operation.

Chase sailed with a group of combatants scheduled to simulate a landing on the southern coast of the island as a diversion from the main assaults on Okinawa. The diversion received more attention from enemy aircratthan did the main lanings on April 1.

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Chase was later towed across the Pacific to San Diego, Arriving Oct. 11.

Chase was decommissioned Jan. 15, 1946 and sold for scrap Nov. 13, 1946, having received two battle stars for her World War II service.

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Aside from two brief voyages to Guam and Ulithi, Chase continued the dangerous duty of patrolling off Okinawa until May 20.

On that day, the ship fired succesfully on a diving kamikaze, but had to maneuver violently to avoid the falling aircraft, which splashed a mere ten yards from the ship. The explosion of the two bombs it carried ripped Chase’s hull open, flooding the engine and fire rooms. With its steering jammed at hard left rudder, Chase drove off another suicide plane.

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